Posts Tagged ‘orange’

Finding a piece of wall art that you connect with can be hard. When I go to shops like IKEA for example, while I like the furniture with its sleek lines, the canvas prints can sometimes leave me a little cold. My mantra is wear what you love and fill your home with what you […] Read more…

If you are anything like me, you will have “To Do” lists and shopping lists all over the kitchen surfaces which get lost underneath homework and snacks. So why not create your own upcycled blackboard and get organised! I have used a vintage kitchen drawer which can be wall hung or sit on your worktop […] Read more…

Last week I went to The Festival of Antiques at Peterborough Showground for a vintage shopping trip and bought some orange lovelies! Mostly from the same sellers too! All of these except the Le Creuset pot, came from Holland and sold from a lovely Dutch couple (who were very patient with my daughter who re-arranged their […] Read more…

You all know that I love vintage and choose it for my home. However, I also love mixing it with modern and vintage style pieces here and there and I know that you sometimes prefer new pieces that remind you of old ones as they are a) more accessable and b) sometimes cheaper and c) […] Read more…

As you know I love to feature vintage style items not just true vintage, however I tend to prefer the originals. A reproduction piece has to have something about it to win me over to be honest, so when this press release arrived into my inbox I was a little dubious. Especially as I have […] Read more…

I’ve been recently sent some amazing vintage style homewares from Hunkydory Home, an online store who have fully embraced colour and pattern with a real retro vibe to it. I am totally in love with their retro cushions especially. The orange flower cushion is part of their new Retro Flowers range, which has the same […] Read more…

Last weekend I bought this three tiered vintage cake tin by Johnson Bros. I haven’t seen a tiered cake tin with a 1960s flower power design on for a long time, as usually you see the 1930s/40s version by brands such as Tala. While the earlier ones are truly fabulous, they don’t quite match my kitchen. […] Read more…

For regular readers out there, you will know that we have been refurbishing our home over the last few years. We bought a 1920s house 4 years ago, that was stuck in the 1960s. While we love this era, 1960s wiring and damp aren’t exactly desirable! Well it is almost complete with just one room […] Read more…

The designer, Orla Kiely famed for her retro pattern has produced a range of coffee jars for the premium coffee brand Douwe Egberts. It is a marketing master stroke as so many of us are buying the jars to keep forever, yet still will then try the coffee. For me, it definitely worked as I […] Read more…

As you know I love my vintage, well retro really, kitchen. It’s a mix of new and old; the units and oak worktop are new as are the gadgets such as the green Morphy Richards toaster and my juicer, but the rest is circa 1965. Here are my top 10 items that I couldn’t live […] Read more…

So who has chosen to not go abroad this year, but stay put instead and go camping in the UK? We are going to the Isle of White this summer and are looking forward to pootling about in our camper van and enjoying the lovely beaches that our country has to offer. We wrote an […] Read more…

Last weekend we travelled up north to visit Harrogate. It is such a beautiful town with lovely boutique shops but honestly. our favourite was Space. We popped in to have a butchers as well as to have our lunch. It has been recently re fitted and was crammed with some great goodies. I had my eye firmly […] Read more…

Those of you who follow this blog will know we have a slight orange obsession…ok, ok, we have a HUGE orange obsession. It all started when Adam was on a quest for an orange teapot which then triggered a buying spree of everything, and I mean everything orange for his kitchen. When my grandma passed away in 2007, […] Read more…

It’s always a funny week between Christmas and New Year. The presents and food still seem to be flowing, the house is in chaos and the prospect of work seems a chore. Our celebrations continued with different family and friends coming over for more dinner. We got the crystal back out and re-ironed the vintage […] Read more…

The ceramic range called Gaytime by Lord Nelson sums up the retro, psychedelic vibe of the 1960s. Bright orange and purple birds and flowers on cream ceramic simply jump out at you and make you smile. Interestingly the bright patterns are on very traditional pieces such as rolling pins and measuring jugs…not really as forward as […] Read more…